The bảohouse is the digital abode of bảo.thiên.ngô, a Vietnamese American designer exploring aesthetics, community, communication, and sustainability in striving towards the dream of building a Vietnamese American community center.
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Available today in 192 thousand neighborhoods across America, Yatown is bringing communities closer together by re-acquainting neighbors in providing a single, well known place for users to go and immediately “see” one another in an online “townsquare.”
“Yatown was born out of our own frustration in connecting to our neighborhoods online. We had to locate obscure mailing lists or antiquated and poorly maintained websites,” said CEO of Yatown, Christopher Nguyen. “People have been trying to solve this problem through services like Ning and other build-your-own-social-network sites, or Facebook groups. These approaches don’t work for three reasons: they’re too much work to set up, too difficult for neighbors to find, and people do not associate existing sites with their geographic neighborhood.”
So who is Christopher Nguyen?
Christopher Nguyen is CEO & co-founder of Yatown. His expertise is in managing teams and large-scale systems. Christopher has co-founded two other successful start-ups, ACTGENT, and Agenda-Asia. He was CEO at Bluepulse, a venture-backed mobile start-up. At Google he was the Eng Director responsible for the operations of Google Apps (GMail, Calendar, etc). He is a recipient of the Google Founders’ Award.
Christopher was also a professor at HKUST where he helped launch their Computer Engineering program. He was an undergrad at Berkeley and got his PhD from Stanford.